内容简介
A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger
man's face; a doctor yearns for a virus that might eliminate his
discomfort by turning everyone else into doubles of himself; a
Colonel lays out the precepts of the life of DE (Do Easy);
conspirators posthumously succeed in blowing up a train full of
nerve gas; a mandrill known as the Purple Better One runs for the
presidency with brutal results; and the world drifts towards
apocalypses of violence, climate and plague. The hallucinatory
landscape of William Burroughs' compellingly bizarre, fragmented
novel is constantly shifting, something sinister always just
beneath the surface.
作者简介
William S. Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914 in St Louis.
In work and in life Burroughs expressed a lifelong subversion of
the morality, politics and economics of modern America. To escape
those conditions, and in particular his treatment as a homosexual
and a drug-user, Burroughs left his homeland in 1950, and soon
after began writing. By the time of his death he was widely
recognised as one of the most politically trenchant, culturally
influential, and innovative artists of the twentieth century. His
numerous books include Naked Lunch, Junky, Queer, Nova Express,
Interzone, The Wild Boys, The Ticket That Exploded and The Soft
Machine. After living in Mexico City, Tangier, Paris, and London,
Burroughs finally returned to America in 1974. He died in 1997.